Griots and Community: Celebrating Artistry with Patrice Rushen

Thursday / February 7, 2013 / 8:15 p.m.

Berklee Performance Center

136 Massachusetts Avenue

Boston

MA

United States

02115

Join us for the first in a series of concerts under the theme of Griots and Community. This concert will be a celebration of ensembles. Performances inspired by Balkan folk music, African vocal traditions, Negro spirituals, contemporary music, and jazz, promise a concert of diverse styles of storytelling through vocal music. Additionally, two of Berklee's instrumental ensembles will join forces. The Berklee Jazz Orchestra and members of the BCSO string section will add their sonorous colors to the mix of music presented.

Each ensemble is like a community, working together to shape a performance. Each piece performed is a story, offering a point of view on a moment in time. What better way to demonstrate the joys of music-making, than by raising our collective voices in celebration of the griots we become as musicians, in our own community of large ensembles at Berklee.

Produced by Patrice Rushen, Berklee's ambassador for artistry in education.

Admission:

$8 in advance (discount applied at checkout), $12 day of show, general admission